From an Latin American perspective, a framework has been developed with input from social studies of technology (SST) and the complex systems evolutionary economics (EE) to address issues related to innovation processes, technological change and development in this region. The framework operates...

This work aims to expose three of the main demographic theories, Demographic, Epidemiologic and Sanitary Transition theories, and explore its explanatory capacity. The content is structured in four sections. In the first we briefly review these theories. Secondly, we elaborate a diagnosis of the...

This essay examines how the field of economics works, understood to be the space of symbolic production of economic knowledge and its distribution networks. It therefore analyzes the relationship between the producing agents and the institutions involved. The economy is a scientific field with...

The purpose of this research, in a descriptive way, is to describe the socialand economic alphabetization strategic for a total of 40 families, 34 withboth parents and 6 with at least one parent from the Barranquilla middlesocio-economic class.The economic alphabetization strategies and...

This is a review on gender issue foundations and its comparative development, to carry out an economic analysis of costs, incentives, efficiency and welfare. Attention is focused on questioning the contributions of Public Economics, trying to de - ideologize gender and address it from the Social...

Spanish Abstract: El referente teórico al que se nos ha acostumbrado mirar, cuando pretendemos establecer algún tipo de análisis sobre el desarrollo, ha sido aquel que pretende valorar el nivel de garantías de condiciones materiales de las cuales dispone inmediata o potencialmente un país....

This is a review on gender issue foundations and its comparative development, to carry out an economic analysis of costs, incentives, efficiency and welfare. Attention is focused on questioning the contributions of Public Economics, trying to de - ideologize gender and address it from the Social...

Este trabajo trata de comprobar si la eficiencia productiva del Grupo Telefónica S.A. de España ha mejorado luego de ser privatizada. Se ha utilizado este caso por ser una empresa representativa en la industria de las telecomunicaciones globales. La evidencia empírica indica que las empresas...

This work shows if the productive efficiency of the Group Telefónica S.A. of Spain it has improved after being privatized. This case has been used to be a representative company in the industry of the global telecommunications. The empiric evidence indicates that the companies of this sector...

Impulse Buying and the drivers of similar consumer behaviours have captured the interest of researchers for quite some time now. The construct was first explored in the context of offline or brick and mortar stores. However, with the growing popularity of online retail stores has led to the...